'She was a child.' White House comments on Ma'Khia Bryant shooting

[Withywindle]

136. That video looks very heavily edited

And in the context of a police press conference.

I'm not saying it's not accurate or true necessarily. I'm saying that a police press conference is the LEAST reliable source possible when it comes to evaluating police conduct, because cops will ALWAYS* cover for each other. This is so well known, there is no more unreliable witness to a cop's conduct than another cop.


*Unless they're willing to get fired and possibly targeted for death threats. A few ex-cops have done so. They're the people we should be regarding as heroes.


I don't know if the cops are lying in this particular case. They might be, they might not be. When a Black person is shot more times than is necessary to subdue them, my default assumption is to assume the cops are lying until proven otherwise, because that is by far the common scenario.

I would need MUCH MORE hard solid evidence to disprove this pattern that my own eyes have seen over decades than to prove it.

They shot her in the chest 4 times. Surely once would have been enough, if their intention was to stop harm without killing?